For the Winnipeg Jets, recent first-round draft picks are shining at this year's development camp. Other prospects are making their marks, too.
There is no doubt the Winnipeg Jets would prefer to have Rutger McGroarty skating at the team’s annual development camp taking place this week at Hockey For All Centre.
That group includes the likes of 2022 first-round pick Brad Lambert and 2023 first rounder Colby Barlow. And it’s probably not a coincidence those two skated on a line together during a short scrimmage Friday morning to cap off the second day of on ice sessions. Barlow finished his year with the Moose after Owen Sound was swept in the first round of the OHL playoffs by the eventual Memorial Cup champions, the Saginaw Spirit. The 19-year-old Orillia, Ont., native scored once and set up two other goals in a three-game stint for Manitoba.“It’s all steps. It kinda showed me what I had to get better at to reach that level and that’s what I’m working at this summer,” Barlow said following Friday’s development camp skate.
And Morrison agrees with the idea that Kevin Cheveldayoff’s July 1 message to the organization’s young players has resonated with the development camp gathering. “They all watch what’s going on and they think there’s opportunity for them, and gives them a little bit of energy.”
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